Quasi-moons are not real moons and don't actually orbit the Earth, although they sometimes appear to do so for short periods of time, Phil Nicholson, professor of astronomy at Cornell University, told ...

The Blue Ghost lunar lander has captured its first images of the moon from the spacecraft’s orbit around Earth, the Texas-based company Firefly Aerospace announced this week. The two images — which ...

The celestial object is what scientists call a quasi-moon — an asteroid that orbits the sun but appears to move alongside ...

Earth has a new cosmic companion, a 19-meter asteroid named 2025 PN7, discovered in August 2025. This 'quasi-moon' will orbit ...

NASA released a selfie taken by the Orion capsule and close-up photos of the moon's crater-marked landscape as the spacecraft continues on the Artemis 1 mission, a 25-and-a-half day journey that will ...

Researchers are discussing 2025 PN7, a small celestial body that's following a similar orbital path to our planet's without ...

The company reached the lunar surface in 2024, and now its second lander aims to improve on the feat. Three other spacecraft also hitched a ride on the SpaceX rocket. By Kenneth Chang Intuitive ...

When Earth is opposite Mars from the sun, it will appear full because you’re looking directly on the daylit side. But ...